Noreen Rashid, practice manager at Bilton Medical Centre, decided to “kill two birds with one stone” by raising awareness of diabetes at the same time as collecting cash for our £1 million fundraising campaign to fight cancer.

The surgery is one of a number across the city to sell the T&A Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal pin badge to boost the appeal, which aims to buy Bradford University’s Institute of Cancer Therapeutics a new mass spectrometer.

The machine will allow its scientists to study the role of proteins in cancer ten times faster than ever before and could hold the key to a major breakthrough in developing new, less toxic cancer treatments.

Noreen said: “The T&A Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal is such a great cause. I’ve lost a family member and a friend to cancer, so it’s something that I feel very strongly about.

“I knew World Diabetes Day was coming up, so I decided to combine the two and kill two birds with one stone.”

By lunchtime, the surgery had diagnosed one new diabetic patient by doing a finger-prick test.

Helped by a raffle to boost the coffers, by the end of the day, the practice had raised a total of £280 for the appeal.